Creatures

Famous quotes containing the word creatures:

    ‘Whoever it is that leaves him out so late,
    When other creatures have gone to stall and bine,
    Ought to be told to come and take him in.’
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?
    Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)